Golden State Warriors' Andre Iguodala celebrates after making a three-point basket during the first half of an NBA basketball game against the Philadelphia 76ers on Monday, Nov. 4, 2013, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Michael Perez)

PHILADELPHIA — The 76ers ran out of rallies.

No scoring spree was going to save the Sixers this time, not when they dug themselves a 39-point hole. Not shooting spurt was going to rescue them from their first loss of the season — and those in the building knew it, as most of them were retreating to their cars with at least 12 minutes to spare.

“Tonight it actually caught up with us,” said Sixers forward Thaddeus Young.

The Sixers weren’t bound to go undefeated. So Golden State did the honors, handing the Sixers their first loss of the season in a 110-90 drubbing that wasn’t nearly as competitive as the final score might indicate.

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It was a deflating loss for the Sixers, who had posted three straight come-from-behind victories to improbably open the season atop the Atlantic Division. What followed was a clunker, in which ball movement seemed challenging.

“When we dribble a lot and don’t move the ball and it becomes stagnant and terminal, we have real issues,” said Sixers coach Brett Brown, whose team had a season-high 24 turnovers and a season-low 19 assists. “And we’re not dynamic. We don’t boast iso(lation) guys who are going to break people down 1-on-1 and you’re going to stand and watch them.

“We need to move the ball and I don’t feel we did that tonight. I thought we were very static. I thought we were individual. That’s on me to help them continue to understand the importance of playing as a team so it doesn’t become an individual exercise.”

It was demoralizing, too, as Golden State continued to pepper them from 3-point range with a large lead and its second- and third-teamers on the floor.

“We were just a step too slow running them off (the 3-point line),” Young said.

The Warriors went 15-for-37 from long range, led by Andre Iguodala’s career-best seven treys. Iguodala torched his former team for 32 points on 11-for-18 shooting.

Meanwhile, Iguodala’s teammate — high-octane guard Steph Curry — had a triple-double by the time he checked out of the game … in the third quarter. Curry logged 18 points, 12 assists, 10 rebounds and five steals, becoming the first player since 1987 to post those totals in 30 minutes or fewer.

Just that kind of the night for the home team.

For some reason, the Sixers kept rookie point guard Michael Carter-Williams in the game into the fourth quarter. There was no sense trotting one of their most-valuable assets onto the floor in a game that was well out of hand well before that. Nonetheless, Carter-Williams, who earlier in the day had earned Eastern Conference Player of the Week honors, finished with 18 points on a meager 4-for-17 shooting effort, to go with six turnovers.

Statistically speaking, it doesn’t get much better than that. Evan Turner made his final seven shots, after missing his first five attempts, to total 18 points with seven rebounds. Spencer Hawes, who had been averaging 19 points and 11 rebounds, came back to reality with a more-pedestrian line of five points and eight boards.

It got so bad that the Sixers’ deepest reserves, the ones who need to play well in garbage time in order to shore up their future playing prospects, drew boos from fans still lingering around by failing to dive for loose balls in the fourth quarter.

The Sixers made the game’s first basket. And really, it was all downhill from there.

Everyone knows what Golden State (3-1), the second-leading scoring team in the league, is capable of. And everyone with admission to Wells Fargo Center should have known what Iguodala was capable of, even if his numbers this season didn’t lend credence to it.

That didn’t matter. For those with a short memory span, Iguodala spent the first half reminding fans.

Iguodala, who was traded by Denver to Golden State in the offseason, is playing a scaled-down scoring role for the Warriors. To put his new job description into perspective: Iguodala had 26 points on 20 shot attempts and only three 3-pointers through Golden State’s first three games. After the first 24 minutes of his game against the Sixers (3-1), Iguodala had 27 points on 15 shots and had made six 3s.

“We noticed he’s hot,” Brown said. “You can’t help but notice he’s changing the game in the first half. Some of that hurts.”

It was simply all Warriors in this one, with Golden State getting more than halfway to 100 points only halfway through the second quarter. The Sixers, who have the sixth-worst scoring defense in the league, had permitted the Warriors to score 98 points through three quarters.